Jane Elliot is famous for the "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise she carried out in her third grade Iowa classroom in 1968. It ...

You’ve got to be carefully taught." Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan wrote the musical "South Pacific" (Broadway premiere1949), and it may be that activist and educator Jane ...

This Iowa teacher became famous for her blue eyes/brown eyes exercise that had children experience prejudice on a personal level. Jane Elliott was a 3rd grade teacher working in Riceville in 1968 when ...

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 prompted educator Jane Elliott to create the now-famous "blue eyes/brown eyes exercise." As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, ...